Rychosis notes
Education & Development, People & Places May 5th, 2005
I used to play on a MUD with a guy named Rychosis. He mailed me in 1998 and asked me about UIUC, and came to campus for a tour. I remember showing him my crappy dorm room and being so proud of it, for what it was. Well, he came to Illinois (despite my tour!) and got more degrees than I did – include a masters in GSLIS. So, I had lunch with him last week and here are my notes from our conversation. It was good to see him again, and it’s always interesting to hear what people liked and didn’t like about their school experience. My notes:
Brian Heidorn – his digital library and info system classes are good.
Core classes are mostly reading and exams. The rest of the classes have very few exams, but projects and papers.
He recommended Bruch Schatz, who I met before at a colloqium at Siebel Center.
Matt thought independent studies are cool and recommended I try it.
Matt liked Twidel’s user interface class, but he recommended I take the more advanced one. He took it after Heidorn’s class and said the ‘big picture’ to individual user jump in perspective is cool. (I remember thinking that taking CS225 and CS231 at the same time.)
He advised to beware of online information system classes. They’re mainly about using info systems, not designing/implementing them.
He recommend Schilling history of info distribution as a cool class that explores the social aspects of technology.
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